• Geriatrics · Jul 1992

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    Preventive geriatrics: basic principles for primary care physicians.

    • E W Kligman.
    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson.
    • Geriatrics. 1992 Jul 1;47(7):39-50.

    AbstractThe goal of preventive geriatrics is to nurture a state of health that allows maximal active life expectancy while maintaining high levels of function. The physician's role in promoting such a state of health is disease prevention and the control of chronic diseases of aging. Barriers such as insufficient time and/or staff resources and insufficient third-party reimbursement restrict the delivery of multiple risk factor intervention and healthy aging counseling in the office setting. A systematic approach to preventive geriatrics proposed by the U.S. Prevention Services Task Force is discussed.

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